Watching the Rand Paul saga unfold is really a spectacle. Like I've stated before, I live very close to Kentucky so sometimes I get a lot of spillover from the happenings in that
A few days ago the blog reported that Paul, the big anti-government crusader that he is, was raising money from the evil senators that voted for TARP. This new source of revenue for Paul came after he had bashed his general election opponent for accepting money from senators that voted in favor of passing TARP. Here's what Paul had to say about his opponent and his Big Government friends:
“There is nothing in the Constitution that allows the government to pick winners and losers in the private sector and the Republican party platform specifically condemns bailouts,” Paul said. “I’m running for the U.S. Senate to stand up for true Republican principles and the Republicans I’ve talked to agree that is what we need.”It's perfectly fine for a Republican to accept money from the evil socialist Big Government tyrants, but not a Democrat. But it gets better. Paul has now removed from his campaign website his pledge to not accept TARP related money. Again from BFP:
With Rand Paul set to take part in a fancy big money DC fundraiser in his honor held by Republican Senators who voted for the bank bailouts, let's all take a moment to remember this pledge from his campaign website on August 30th, 2009:Wow!
"U.S. Senate candidate Rand Paul on Monday pledged not to accept campaign contributions from any U.S. Senator who voted for the bank bailout and challenged his opponents to follow suit.
Dr. Paul issued this challenge after learning that Trey Grayson has scheduled a Washington D.C. fundraiser co-sponsored by several U.S. Senators, seventeen of whom voted for the so-called TARP bailout in 2008, which was then used to fund an auto industry bailout Congress rejected.
But wait a second, click on that link above."
That's right, this post has been scrubbed from Rand Paul's campaign website.
To top it all off, Sir Rand is such a small government conservative Republican and so against the government bailing out private industry that his campaign fund is setup through J.P. Morgan, a bank that received a-- get this without laughing-- TARP bailout!
So not only is Paul raising money from TARP supporters, his campaign bank where he keeps all of his funds is a TARP recipient of $95 million of tax payer money. In reality the summation of this would mean Rand Paul is not against the federal government issuing bailouts to private business. He's not against any of it. He just likes to say he is so he can continue to enjoy the label of Washington Outsider that is rolling up his sleeves to go Freedom Fight against Big Government. All the while Rand Paul is vastly enjoying the comforts of government bailouts. Normally a person that did this would be called delusional. Nowadays they're called Republican.
Posts
